Category Archives: System Center

We had built a new SCOM 2016 Management Group alongside the existing 2012 R2 UR11 one in order to dual home and test before switching over. As we saw posts showing that there were issues with APM and .Net Application Pools crashing with UR2 we decided to wait until UR3 but that did not fix …

I wanted a quick list of all the servers in a 2012 R2 resource pool for documentation rather than go into each on and check it. Haven’t got there yet but I did manage to get a quick way to see what resouce pools a management server belongs to. For a single server $Member = …

Creating a dynamic group makes life easier for overrides, views and reports (the main uses of groups). When a new object is discovered it automatically joins the group if it matches the criteria. And that means that your overrides, views and reports take that into account without any intervention on your part. These are usually …

I received an email that the free MP authoring tool from Silect is now at SP1. But there is very little information about what is contained in this upgrade. There is still just the single exe file and the PDFs for installation and getting started. I run the exe and it upgraded my existing installation …

I was working on a project where Orchestrator 2012 SP1 plays a big part in linking and automating the various parts of the solution which includes Service Manager, Operations Manager, BMC and Orion as well as custom databases. Therefore it was essential that Orchestrator is properly monitored. While Microsoft produce a MP for Orchestrator it …

I was checking out some reports on the SQL Server MP as I had installed the new 6.4.0.0 version in a test system but still had 6.3.173.1 in production. When looking at group membership I noticed that there were a few SQL servers missing from the SQL Server 2012 DB Engine Group but that they …

I had a situation that the SCOM to SCSM (both 2012 SP1) had stopped several days ago yet the CI Connector showed that it was still working. There was no obvious reason why this connector was still working when the alert connector was not.Looking at the SCOM side and showing the column Forwarding Status then …